Antonio Trillanes

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Antonio Trillanes IV
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Senator of the Philippines
Assumed office
June 30, 2007
Personal details
Born Antonio Fuentes Trillanes IV
(1971-08-06) August 6, 1971 (age 52)
Caloocan, Metro Manila, Philippines
Nationality Filipino
Political party Nacionalista Party (2012 – present)
Magdalo
Other political
affiliations
Team PNoy (2012-2013)
Independent (2007–2012)
United Opposition (2007)
Spouse(s) Arlene G. Orejana
Children Francis Seth (b. 1997)
Thea Estelle (b. 1999)
Alan Andrew (b. 2001, now deceased)[1]
Residence Caloocan City
Alma mater Philippine Military Academy
University of the Philippines
Profession Senator/Legislator of the Philippines; Public Servant; Former Navy Lieutenant[2]
Religion Roman Catholic
Website Official Website
Military service
Allegiance  Philippines
Service/branch Philippine Navy
Years of service 1985-2003 (18 years)
Battles/wars CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion, Moro Conflict, Oakwood mutiny

Antonio "Sonny" Fuentes Trillanes IV (born in Caloocan on August 6, 1971)[3] is a former[4] Navy Lieutenant Senior Grade and currently serving as a senator of the Philippines since 2007.

Trillanes was known for leading the 2003 Oakwood Mutiny when he and some 300 junior officers and enlisted men[5] of the Armed Forces of the Philippines took over the Oakwood towers in Makati City as protest for alleged rampant corruption in the Philippine government - in the Armed Forces of the Philippines in particular - and the prevalence of social injustice all over the country.[6] He was detained for almost seven and a half years after protesting against corruption.[7]

In the Senate election held in May 2007, Trillanes successfully launched a nationwide campaign from his prison cell as he ran and won a seat in the Philippine Senate on a shoestring budget.[8] He was elected to the Senate as guest candidate for the anti-administration[9] Genuine Opposition ticket, and assumed office on June 30, 2007. He made history[7] for being the first Philippine senator to be elected while in jail when more than 11 million people voted him into office on a strong anti-corruption advocacy.[10] On November 29, 2007, Trillanes, together with the soldiers facing coup d'état charges in connection with the 2003 Oakwood Mutiny, marched out of the courtroom while attending a hearing[11] towards the Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati City, to reiterate their call[12] for the ouster of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.[13]

On December 20, 2010, Trillanes was given provisional freedom pending the recognition of the court's amnesty declaration of President Benigno Aquino III.[14] In October 2013, Trillanes formalized his re-election bid, filing his certificate of candidacy at the main office of the Commission on Elections in Manila. He ran under the banner of the Nacionalista Party, which is allied with the ruling Liberal Party in the 2013 midterm elections.[15] He formed part of the umbrella coalition of the administration-backed senatorial line-up for the 2013 Philippine Senate election known as the Team PNoy.[16] Formally proclaimed as a Senator in May 2013,[17] Trillanes was re-elected by 14,127,722 Filipinos as per Comelec's official tally of votes.[18] On October 3, 2015, Trillanes declared he will run for Vice President as an Independent but he supporting Sen. Grace Poe-Llamanzares as Presidential candidate.

Early life

Known as "Sonny" to his family and friends, Trillanes was born and raised in Caloocan, to Philippine Navy Capt. Antonio Floranza Trillanes, Sr. (PMA Class '59) of Ligao City, Albay, and Estelita (née Fuentes) from Ivisan,[19] Capiz.

His elementary years were spent at Siena College, Quezon City from 1975–1983, and from 1983–1987, his secondary education was at Angelicum College in Quezon City. In 1990, while a fourth[1] year BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) student from De La Salle University on Taft Avenue, Manila, he took and passed the [PMA] entrance examination. He formally entered into public service the following year as a cadet in the Philippine Military Academy where he graduated cum laude in 1995, while earning a degree in BS Naval System Engineering. Other awards he received while in PMA are the Mathematics Plaque, Physical Science Plaque, and the Tambuli Award for electrical/electronics engineering.

In 2002, Trillanes took up his graduate studies at the University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance, and got his master's degree in Public Administration, Major in Public Policy and Program Management.

For the duration of the masters program, he received two University Scholar Awards for obtaining two semestral GPAs of 1.0 to 1.25 and a College Scholar Award for obtaining a semestral GPA of 1.25 to 1.50.[20]

In 2014, he finished the National and International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School[1] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.[21]

Politics

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Trillanes filed his certificate of candidacy on February 7, 2007, to run as an independent Senator even though he was detained for coup d'état. Later, he accepted an invitation from the Genuine Opposition party (GO) as one of its guest candidates to field against the Arroyo administration. He campaigned, though in jail, through the social networking site, Friendster. He was eventually proclaimed Senator-elect on June 15, 2007 by the Commission on Elections. He is the 2nd youngest senator after Benigno Aquino, Jr. elected at the age of 35 (his partymate Bam Aquino join him as youngest senator elected in 2013)

On July 23, 2007, Trillanes' motion for an "arrangement" with the Makati RTC that would allow him to fulfill his duties as a Senator while under detention, and to allow him to attend the SONA, remained unacted upon. A week after, judge Oscar Pimentel denied Trillanes's plea to be granted leave from detention to attend Senate sessions, and to set up an office inside Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City where he had been detained.[22] In response to Trillanes' continued imprisonment despite his election as Senator, former University of the Philippines president Francisco Nemenzo, Jr. and former vice president Teofisto Guingona, Jr. of civil society launched the "Paglingkurin si Trillanes [Let Trillanes Serve] Movement" in Pasay City on August 23, 2007. Akbayan Representative Risa Hontiveros, Ana Maria Nemenzo of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, opposition leader Jose Alcuaz, and Trillanes' spokesperson Sonny Rivera, were present.[23]

Notwithstanding calls from civil society groups to allow Trillanes to serve as Senator pursuant to his election, Judge Oscar Pimentel denied Trillanes's petition to attend Senate sessions on September 20, 2007, for lack of merit, ruling that his incarceration would not be a bar to fulfilling his duties as a Senator.[24] His petition, having been denied by the lower court, Senator Trillanes filed a petition with the Supreme Court of the Philippines, asking that his petition to be allowed to attend Senate sessions be granted. Representing him was his lawyer Reynaldo Robles. Included in said petition was a request that he be allowed to receive visitors in his jail at Fort Bonifacio.[25]

On October 17, 2007, the Supreme Court of the Philippines, in an en banc resolution, directed the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and Makati Regional Trial Court Judge Oscar Pimentel to comment within 10 days on Senator Antonio Trillanes IV's petition.[26] These requests were however later overshadowed by Trillanes' decision to stage another action against Gloria Arroyo's administration. On November 29, 2007, the senator led another uprising, this time at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati. After walking out of his court hearing, he and Brigadier General Danilo Lim led their supporters to the hotel where they staged their protest against the government, calling on the public to join them. Six hours later, after military teams surrounded the hotel and armored personnel carriers broke through the hotel's front doors, Senator Trillanes and his companions surrendered.

In 2010, under Proclamation 75, President Benigno Aquino III granted amnesty to Trillanes and other military personnel accused of trying to oust the Arroyo administration. He was able for the first time to enter the Senate and perform his duties as a senator.

Trillanes stood up against Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's corrupt and oppressive regime, and was incarcerated for almost 7 ½ years.

After formalizing his re-election bid in October 2012, Trillanes filed his certificate of candidacy for 2013 elections at the Commission on Elections main office in Manila. He is running under the banner of the Nacionalista Party, which is allied with the ruling Liberal Party in the 2013 midterm elections.[27] Trillanes was ranked ninth out of the out of the 12 winning senators. Trillanes was proclaimed senator-elect on May 20, 2013 by the Commission on Elections[28] with an official tally of 14,127,722 votes.[18]

He has formally declared his intention to run for higher office as vice president in the coming 2016 national elections.[29] Trillanes, started his vice presidential campaign during the MAGDALO Coalition's general assembly at the Amoranto Sports Complex in Quezon City, last October 3. 2015. Trillanes and the Magdalo group has formally showed support to the presidential bid of fellow senator Grace Poe.[30]

At the Senate, he is one of the most productive senators in terms of number bills, resolutions and committee reports filed,[31] totalling to 1,077 bills and resolutions, 52 of which have been passed into law from 2007 to present.[1]

During the 16th Congress (2013–present) he ranks 1st[32] based on the total number of:

  • National Bills approved on 3rd Reading (10 bills) National Bills (as Principal Author) passed into law
  • Committee Reports on National Bills sponsored (19 bills) ̶ 10 of which have been approved on 3rd reading; 5 have been passed into law; 4 are pending for deliberation
  • National Bills (as Principal Author) passed into law

During the 15th Congress (2010-2013) he ranked 1st[32] based on the total number of:

  • National Bills (as Principal Sponsor) passed into law
  • National Bills (as Principal Author) passed into law (15th Congress)

Personal life

Trillanes is married to Arlene G. Orejana, a former member of the Philippine Military Academy corps of professors — a PMA Class 1997 graduate herself — and together they have had three children: Francis Seth, Thea Estelle, and Alan Andrew (who died at 21 days old).

References

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